The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no ...

Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...

At the same time, Zambello’s durable version of “Carmen,” which originated in 2006 and was last seen in San Francisco in 2019, doesn’t stint Bizet’s local color, which was to the delight ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century Brooklyn ...